Previously, I was a post-doctoral fellow in the Department of Philosophy at the Centre for Consciousness at the Australian National University, and a Mellon post-doctoral fellow in the Department of Philosophy at Tulane University.

I received my Ph.D. from NYU in May 2012. My dissertation is titled “The Sharp Contour of Consciousness.” In it, I argue that the concept ‘phenomenally conscious’ is not vague (it is sharp), that phenomenal consciousness is, in a fairly weak sense, a joint in nature (it is a contour), and that these theses together make for a serious new challenge to some versions of materialism.

Before graduate school I worked in logic and knowledge representation at IFOMIS, the Institute for Formal Ontology and Medical Information Science, then in Leipzig, Germany. Before that, I majored in philosophy and minored in mathematics at Columbia University.